Rétromobile 2019 – Renault presents its saga Turbo

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January 11th 2019

January 11th 2019

July 1, 1979, Grand Prix de France on the Dijon-Prenois circuit: Jean-Pierre Jabouille imposes his Renault RS10 and offers his first victory to Renault in the Formula 1 World Championship, while René Arnoux (Renault RS10) completes the success of Renault taking the 3rd place, after a Homeric battle with Gilles Villeneuve (Ferrari 312T).

Renault has just revolutionized motorsport: for the first time, a 1.5-liter turbocharged engine is needed against the traditional 3.0-liter atmospheric engaged in the premium category. All competing competitors will follow Renault in this direction and the current technical regulation of Formula 1, based on a 1.6-liter turbocharged V6 engine, is a form of recognition of the vision of Renault (vision whose genesis dates back to 1902 , the year in which Louis Renault filed a patent on the means "to increase the gas inlet pressure in the cylinders [via] a fan or a small compressor"!).

40 years later, Renault celebrates the anniversary of this revolutionary victory and exhibits at the 2019 Rétromobile show the 1979 Formula 1 RS10, surrounded by a selection of emblematic series vehicles, illustrating how from 1980, Renault has transposed in its range of series vehicles technological achievements from the competition.

The first classic car show in France and one of the flagship shows in Europe, Rétromobile took place from Wednesday 6 to Sunday 10 February 2019, in Pavillons 1, 2 and 3 of the Porte de Versailles Exhibition Center (1, Place de the Porte de Versailles) in Paris (75,015).